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Youth in the Making

Your Voice. Your Creativity. Your Culture. 

A colourful tree with leaves which each have a wish wrote onto them. The wishes read: - Ensure everyone feels they belong - Provide valuable training opportunities for young people in college and university. - All young people have a library card and understand it’s amazing benefits. - Learn from each other. - To ensure our libraries are a safe place for young adults to meet. - To enable every child in Leicestershire to access a library and museum. - For our services to be places that young people want to go to. - Time spent in libraries and museums form positive memories. - To break barriers towards young people being able to volunteer. - Inspire young people to pursue a cultural career. - New young person groups in libraries. - To inspire and support young people to be creative. - Build confidence in creativity. - Be a safe place. - To provide safe, fun spaces for all young people. - To provide wellbeing/career support for young people who struggle with “traditional” learning pathways. - Invest in a dedicated young person lead for the service. - Have meaningful work experience and internship programmes. - To make space and opportunity for all the children who are told they are too loud, too much, too active or too difficult. - Have more coffee morning activities for under 5’s and support for parents. - Create space where young people and staff alike feel happy and content freely cocurating together. - To have youth groups and volunteering in the museum spaces. - Have live music at all heritage venues. - To make space in all LCC libraries for SEND spaces to provide books/items for SEND children/parents. - To offer potential evening events to all more working parents/guardians to become more involved with the library. - To identify/provide more opportunities for young people to embark on creative careers. It’s the next step after participation. - To be able to have music in libraries. - To be a welcoming place for teenagers. - To remove overdue charges for children as NTR legacy. - To develop a SEND offer across Culture Leicestershire. - To have more musical events for toddlers. - That all children get a chance to create something fantastic! - To have modern + accessible children’s libraries across all sites. - To provide safe and accessible and trained staff to help neurodiverse children & their families. - For our service to engage with groups of harder to reach young people such as teenage boys. - To have an improved provision to 16+ selections & collections. - To have young people guide book purchasing. - Positively effect the mental wellbeing of young people visiting, collaborating and learning in our spaces. - To create a space that young people want to be in, be inspired by, supporting them in their ambitions and dreams.

Welcome to Youth in the Making – a new space for young people to discover how you can get involved in art, culture and heritage across Leicestershire.

There is already a lot happening. Young people are volunteering, gaining work experience, taking part in university placements, creating projects, developing new skills and helping shape what happens in our libraries, museums and heritage sites. In 2024-2025, more than 2800 young people took part in Culture Leicestershire programmes designed to make culture more relevant and accessible to you.

But we don’t want to stop there. This year staff across Culture Leicestershire have come together to make pledges towards our joint mission – to provide more opportunities, activities and spaces for young people. Youth in the Making is part of that mission.

Whether you’re looking for work experience, want to try something creative, wish to volunteering, are interested in a cultural career, or simply have an idea you’d like to see happen; there could be something here for you.

Click the tabs below to explore what we have been up to, discover how you can get involved, or send us an idea – we’d love to hear from you!

(Image: At the 2026 Culture Leicestershire Seminar we asked staff what wishes they had for young people living in Leicestershire. These are the wishes they had for you.)

Explore our journey

In case you missed it…Check out what we have been up to. We are so proud of our work; this area of Youth in the Making, showcases project we want to shout about! We hope these projects provides inspiration, while we celebrate what has already been achieved by young people at Culture Leicestershire.Find out more about 'In case you missed it…'
New for 2026/27Find out more about 'New for 2026/27'
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